Last modified: 2009-08-27 21:49:20 UTC
<ref>...</ref> in the German Wikipedia is shown as empty space after, usually, the 2nd occurrence in an Article sometimes. See e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K%C3%B6lsch_(Sprache)&stable=0#Herkunft_und_Entstehung_des_K.C3.B6lschen towards the end of the section, http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K%C3%B6lsch_(Sprache)&stable=0#Herkunft_und_Entstehung_des_K.C3.B6lschen This happens a bit randomly. If it happens, the error persists for a while, likely due to page caching. I tried a cache purge as a quick remedy, but it did not make a change.
No idea what I'm supposed to be looking at... can you take a screen shot?
Sorry, I can take screen shots, but I cannot upload them. (The Website hangs, when I try) You'll find extraordinary long spaces - thats the places where there should be <ref>s. Alternatively, look at the source parrallel to the rendered version. Btw. the <references /> tag works as expected. Maybe you can jump back from there.
I checked the given example, ref anchors are rendered exactly as they should - closing as worksforme therefore. Please reopen this bug in case you find another example and/or can provide a screenshot (either here through "add an attachment", or per uploading to some wiki or to another site). Please also give information about your browser then. (I remember some Opera users having troubles with ref tags lately whereas they appeared ok for all other users. The above example is displayed correctly also with Opera, though.)
Created attachment 6413 [details] Screenshot with Opera 10.00 Beta 2 (build 4502) for Linux Here is a screenshot with Opera 10.00 Beta 2 (build 4502) for Linux. Missing 3 anchor links.
I've had the problem with Opera 9.2x versions under Win2K. It is appearing sparsely, and it could be related to Opera being somewhat short of ressources, such as either memory, or processing time (I know, the latter sounds wild, and may be misinterpreted from what I saw: switching tabs inside Opera, and switching windows, while the tab/window having the references is being loaded and rendered incrementally, seems to increase the likelyhodd of missing ref-links, even if you only reload the page from the local cache, e.g. via the "back" button. Yet I've never seen the same page being rendered differently) I've inspected the html occasionally, and afaicr found it correct. Thus I tend to attribute the problem to Opera, meanwhile, but did not bug report there, yet.
Created attachment 6415 [details] Screeshot of missing ref-anchors with Opera 9.63 (built 10476) win2k Here are two combined screen shots of http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landk%C3%B6lsch&oldid=62913901 not showing [8], [9] (at the wide white spots), and [10] (at the very end) made with Opera 9.63 Build 10476 Platform Win32 System Windows 2000
This looks just like a browser bug of some sort. As far as I can tell, the right elements in the page (a <sup> and a <a>) are being served up to the browser, so the bug is not a problem in the Cite extension.